BABALON: This variant spelling of Babylon is first found in the Enochian works of John Dee and Edward Kelly.

The qaballistic value of Babalon spelled in Hebrew is 156, the number of squares in each of the four elemental tablets given to Dee and Kelly by the Enochian Angels.

If you use inverted cards in a Tarot spread, there are 156 card meanings.

Aleister Crowley (considered by some to be the reincarnation of Kelly), continued to explore the Enochian magickal system. Liber 418, "The Vision
and the Voice", details his skrying of the Enochian Aethyrs.

Babalon and Babylon are both seven lettered words and their values in Hebrew can both be written with seven sevens:

77
77 + ----- + 77 = 165 = BABYLON
7

7 + 7
77 + ----- + 77 = 156 = BABALON
7

In "An Essay Upon Numbers", Crowley has this to say about Babalon and the number 156:

"BABALON. This most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in Liber 418. Notice 12x13=156. This is not one of the a priori helpful numbers. It
is rather a case of Qabalah illuminating St John's intentional obscurity."

And in "Magick in Theory and Practice" he has this to say:

"Thus, in low grades of initiation, dogmatic quarrels are inflamed by astral experience; as when Saint John distinguishes between the Whore
Babalon and the Woman clothed with the Sun, between the Lamb that was slain and the Beast 666 whose deadly wound was healed; nor understands that Satan, the Old Serpent, in the Abyss, the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, is the Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinite Space that flames with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused through out the City of Jewels."